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is equivalent to which of the following?


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00:02

Okay Aspiring mathematicians here go more drills for you You've

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got this thing here Point four times fifteen plus two

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divided by two minus quantity and negative a third time

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Say twenty one is equivalent to which of the following

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well we got to simplify this thing here This is

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clearly a pym dos thing And yes when we first

00:24

heard of pim das we were really hoping for a

00:26

cool hybrid panda leamer creature or something Imagine our disappointment

00:31

when we discovered some nonsense about someone's dear aunt sally

00:34

and the order of operations right Parentheses exponents multiplication division

00:39

addition and subtraction Yeah that's pym das And it requires

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us to begin with multiplication and division So let's put

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two terms that are being multiplied in Prince sees eh

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So we're doubly reminded Tio start with those first Yes

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put him up there We should do the same for

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the two terms with a division signed between them Then

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we deal with what's in our three different sets of

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princess easier Right So it's going to look like this

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All right here's the original problem and we're going toe

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simplify this thing We got pulling four times fifteen ryan

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to divide by two forgetting things here What does that

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give us Well that's six plus one on a negative

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third time Twenty one there What is that Minus seven

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Okay so six plus one minus heaven Fancy subtraction here

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From left to right Seven minus seven is what Fourteen

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No Zero Yeah it seems like an awfully roundabout way

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of writing in zero there But who are we to

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judge the answer's c zero

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